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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2923Judge Graves was first married in 1874 in Lee County, Georgia, to MissMaggie Roberts, of Sumter County, Georgia, a daughter of Walker Roberts,a soldier of the Confederacy and later 'a leading and prominent planter ofSumter County. Mrs. Graves died in 1897, the mother of three Children: Mrs.W. C. Hayes, who resides at Macon, Georgia; Mrs. C. 0. Hayes, also of thatcity; and Mrs. Rosa Harris, of-Lowndes County, Georgia. Judge Graveswas again married, in April, 1899, in Worth County, Georgia, to Miss LolaM. Ford, daughter of J. H. Ford, a planter of Worth County, Georgia.HUGH A. MACAULAY, M. D/ The true criterion of ability and skill in theexacting profession of medicine is the success achieved, and measured by thiseffective standard Doctor Macaulay is consistently to be designated as oneof the representative physicians and surgeons of Burke County, where hecontrols a large general practice, with residence and headquarters at Waynesboro,the county seat. His activities touch important business enterprisesalso, especially banking, and he is one of the specially alert and progressivecitizens whose influence is potent in furthering the civic and materialadvancement and prosperity of the fine little city that is the judicial centerof Burke County.^Dr. Hugh Ang"us Macaulay, as both his personal and family names imply,is of sterling Scotch lineage, and he was born at Winnsboro, the capital townof Fairfield County, South Carolina, on the 5th of September, 1885, a son ofDonald John Macaulay and Sally (Fleming) Macaulay, the former of whomwas born in Scotland, in 1854, and the latter of whom was born in South Carolina, she likewise being of Scotch ancestry. Donald J. Macaulay was reared inhis native land, where he received excellent educational advantages, but hecame to the United States prior to attaining to his majority. In 1872 whenabout eighteen years of age, he established his residence at Winnsboro, SouthCarolina, where his marriage was solemnized and 'where he continued his residence for a number of years. He finally removed to Chester, that state, wherehe continued his successful activities as a merchant until his death, whichoccurred in 1914. His widow soon afterward returned to her old home atWinnsboro, where she still resides. Of the five children Doctor Macaulay, ofthis review, is the eldest, and the other four surviving children still reside inthe South.Doctor Macaulay was a boy at the time of the family removal to Chester,judicial center of the South Carolina County of the same name, and there heattended the public schools until he had prepared himself for entrance intoa higher institution of learning. He became a student in Wofford College, atSpartanburg, South Carolina, where he completed the full academic orliterary course and was graduated in 1904, with the degree of Bachelor ofArts. The higher discipline thus gained admirably fortified him for initiating his preparation for the profession of his choice, and in consonance withhis ambmon he entered the medical department of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1908and from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He furtherreinforced himself by serving six months as interne in the university hospital,where he gained varied and specially effective clinical experience.In July, 1908, Doctor Macaulay established, his residence at Waynesboro,Georgia, and his technical ability, his close application and his personal popularity have combined to give him high standing in his profession and enabledhim to build up an excellent general practice of representative order, his workextending into counties lying contiguous to Burke County.In 1913 Doctor Macaulay established and opened for business the excellently equipped drug store known as the Standard Pharmacy, which controlsa substantial business and which is recognized as the most metropolitan establishment of the kind in Waynesboro. The Doctor does not concern himself